Charles Turner Habermann, a wealthy California man, has been arrested for threatening to kill Seattle congressman Jim McDermott.
A California man accused of threatening to kill Seattle Congressman Jim McDermott has been arrested and charged in federal court.
Charles Turner Habermann -- a 32-year-old Palm Springs, Calif., resident with a $3 million trust fund -- was arrested Wednesday morning on allegations that he made threatening phone calls to the office of the Seattle Democrat late last year.
Federal authorities contend Habermann admitted to making the calls because he was angry about taxes, but said he wouldn't risk losing his trust fund by attacking McDermott.
Federal prosecutors in Seattle described statements left by Habermann in two Dec. 9 phone calls as an "expletive-laden" effort to influence McDermott's vote on tax policy. According to charging documents, Habermann to have threatened to kill McDermott's friends and family, then, in the second call, threatened to put McDermott "in the trash."
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A bit of Habermann's phone message to the Congressman:
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Thomas Jefferson, James Madison,, or George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, if any of them had ever met, uh, uh, Jim McDermott they would all blow his brains out. They'd shoot him in the head.
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And you let that fucking scum bag [sic] know, that if he ever fucks around with my money, ever the fuck again, I'll fucking kill him okay. [sic] I'll round them up, I'll killhis friends, I'll kill his family, I'll kill everybody he fucking knows. Alright! [sic] So if you want to fuck with me, you go ahead but let that fucker know, the next time he fucks around, I'll kill him, okay! Good night and goodbye, you fucker!
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Subtle. Seems poor little Trust Fund Boy didn't like McDermott's position on using tax dollars to benefit people who are down on their luck, financially. So, of course, he threatened to shoot the Congressman in the head and kill, more or less, everyone the Congressman knows.
Does any of that Founding Fathers bit sound like Glenn Beck to anyone else? How about the shoot him in the head bit?